Native American & Western Photograph Collection

Title: Chief Geronimo, Apache
Description: Reproduction of a portrait painting of Apache Chief Geronimo, by E.A. Burbank. Fort Sill, O.T. [Oklahoma Territory], 1898.
Date: 1899
Object Type: Artwork

Title: Siem-o-nad-o, Mojave Indian
Description: Reproduction of a portrait painting of Siem-o-nad-o, a Mojave Indian, by E.A. Burbank, San Carlos, Ariz.
Date: 1899
Object Type: Artwork

Title: Ponca Indian Sun Dance
Description: A Ponca Indian Sun Dance ceremony. The participants are in a line and can seen holding feathered spears in their mouths.
Date: 1894
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Wounded Knee, Disarming the Hostile Indians
Description: Indians at the Pine Ridge Agency looking off into the distance toward an unidentified Sioux camp and what looks to be a line of soldiers on horseback.
Date: 1891-01
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Wounded Knee, Birds Eye View of Battlefield
Description: Distant view, looking southwest, of the battlefield at Wounded Knee. Several people with horses can be seen searching a deserted Sioux camp.
Date: 1891-01-01
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Wounded Knee, Deserted Sioux Camp
Description: Distant view, looking south, of a deserted Sioux camp. Soldiers and wagons can be seen in the background.
Date: 1891-01-01
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Oklahoma Indian and Cowboy Views, Photograph 19
Description: Photograph nineteen of twenty-four in Collection of Oklahoma Indian and Cowboy Views by William S. Prettyman and George B. Cornish. It is titled "Holding Down a Town Lot, Guthrie, April 22, 1889" and shows two settlers watching over their lots in what will be the town of Guthrie, OK. The gentleman in the foreground smoking the pipe is identified as P. Pearson (Peter Pearson), behind him is Dr. Acker; both men were friends of the photographer from Arkansas City, KS.
Date: 1889-04-22
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Oklahoma Indian and Cowboy Views, Photograph 17
Description: Photograph seventeen of twenty-four in Collection of Oklahoma Indian and Cowboy Views by William S. Prettyman and George B. Cornish. It is titled "Boomers waiting at the Oklahoma Line April 21st" and shows men, horses and wagons in a field, the day before the first land run in Oklahoma Territory.
Date: 1889-04-21
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Oklahoma Indian and Cowboy Views, Photograph 13
Description: Photograph thirteen of twenty-four in Collection of Oklahoma Indian and Cowboy Views by William S. Prettyman and George B. Cornish. It is titled "Boomers waiting on the State Line April 19th" and shows two lines of men, horses and wagons. The subjects are posing for the picture.
Date: 1889-04-19
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Unidentifed Group of Indians and White Men
Description: Photographic print on 4" x 8" cardboard mount of an unidentfied group of Native Americans and white men with their backs facing the camera. The top of a tipi can be seen in the distance. It is likely the subjects are watching a ceremony of some sort.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Unidentifed Group of Indians and White Men
Description: Photographic print on 5" x 8" cardboard mount of an unidentfied group of Native Americans and white men with their backs facing the camera. It is likely their a watching a ceremony of some sort.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Oklahoma Indian and Cowboy Views, Photograph 05
Description: Photograph five of twenty-four in Collection of Oklahoma Indian and Cowboy Views by William S. Prettyman and George B. Cornish. It is titled "Pawnee Indians, Located 70 Miles south of Arkansas City" and shows four Pawnee females (two with infants) in front of a tipi. The elder woman is curing a hide.
Date: 1889~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Wounded Knee, Cavalry Soldiers
Description: Two rows of soldiers on horseback, and two riders out front surveying the landscape.
Date: 1890~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Wounded Knee, View of Army Camp
Description: Distant view of an army camp. Groups of soldiers can be seen standing in formation and a church and other buildings are in view in the distance.
Date: 1890~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Wounded Knee, Indian Camp
Description: Encampment scene showing a group of Indians sitting and two soldiers on horseback.
Date: 1890~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Wounded Knee, Gathering up the Dead
Description: Three workers loading the frozen bodies of Sioux dead into a wagon. Soldiers on horseback are looking upon the scene from atop a hill.
Date: 1891~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Wounded Knee, Two Strike and Crow Dog Camp
Description: Distant view of the camps of Sioux Chiefs, Two Strike and Crow Dog at the Pine Ridge Agency. A photographer can be seen in the foreground (right-hand side).
Date: 1890~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Wounded Knee, Group Portrait of Soldiers
Description: A group portrait of 30 soldiers posing in front of a tent. Three other men can be seen standing in the background.
Date: 1890~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Wounded Knee, Leaders of the Hostile Indians
Description: A photograph of three Sioux Chiefs, Two Strike, Crow Dog and High Hawk. A white man and two Sioux children are also pictured.
Date: 1890~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Wounded Knee, Women, Children and Soldiers
Description: A group Indian women and children and soldiers posing in front of an unidentified building.
Date: 1890~
Object Type: Photograph

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